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Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail. The special rights for Sabah and Sarawak do not allow for the two states to secede from the federation of Malaysia and such calls are seditious. Attorney-General...
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A clip showing Zamani singing while being handcuffed. Video of Zamani Ibrahim 43, vocalist of a popular band in the ’90s singing while being handcuffed had spurred police to investigate the...
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Sungai Sebatang squatters among the pockets of remaining squatter colonies in Bintulu. Pix James Blackburn The number of squatters in Sarawak had dropped significantly due to various short term and...
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The Google Street Map and Street View car spotted in Tatau. The iconic Google Street View car has been spotted capturing photos in Bintulu Division over the last few days. Several people started...
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The new fees. Malaysian travellers can rejoice as the fee to make or renew their passport for five years is now RM200, down by RM100, effective Thursday. The passport fee for senior citizens, children...
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pix ELC International A local company Vital Focus Group is teaming up with ELC International to build a new International school Bintulu. It will be located located at Kidurong Sentral and will be...
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The Interview that triggered massive cyberattack against Sony. Newly declassified US’s National Security Agency document linked Malaysia to recent massive cyberattack on Sony over comedy movie The Interview blamed on North Korea. The U.S. spy agency drilled into the Chinese networks that connect North Korea to the outside world, picked through connections in Malaysia favoured by North Korean...
Indonesia President Joko Widodo flying economy to attend son graduation in Singapore. Indonesia’s new President Joko Widodo caused a stir this weekend by opting to fly economy class to watch his son’s high school graduation in Singapore, drawing both praise and criticism online. Skipping...
In this Nov. 10, 2014 file photo, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, right, puts a shawl on Peng Liyuan, left, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping as they arrive to watch a fireworks show after a welcome banquet for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)...
Pham Van Thoai, the Vietnamese tourist, cried as he begged a Mobile Air shop employees to give him his money back on Monday. Photo credit: LIANHE ZAOBAO Singaporeans outraged by an electronics shop that left a Vietnamese tourist in tears after a phone-sale scam have...
The promenade is part of the development plan to turn Kemena river shoreline into premier business district in Bintulu. According to the developers shops, offices, shopping and retail complexes, hotels, apartments, bungalows and semi-detached...
Must watch. Known only as uncle Saw, this taxi driver kept onlookers spellbound when he spoke in perfect rhymes chastising Barisan Nasional for failing the people and rooting for Pakatan Rakyat to make it to Putrajaya. ...
These pix are taken from our instagram @btu.weekly – please follow us! Walking along the dusty road of Kidurong industrial zone. #kidurong A photo posted by BtuWeekly (@btu.weekly) on Oct 10, 2014 at 2:37pm PDT ...
Scientists are pretty excited seeing video recording of ancient fish mating – for the first time! It sound pretty awkward but the first act of copulation occurred in the nippy Scottish sea some...
WASHINGTON: Superfast Internet connections are likely open up new kinds of communication such as “telepresence” and improve services such as remote health care, a survey of experts showed...
Pikom, the national information and communications technology (ICT) association of Malaysia, feels the Budget 2015 announced today fell short of measures needed to create a digital economy. The association...
Google Street View image Google announced that 90 per cent of the scenery found along west Malaysia’s public roads and highways already made available on its Street View. “Over the past year, we’ve...
Tanjung Samalaju Resort Hotel Perched on a 23 acre site along the cliffs of the Samalaju Peninsula, Tanjung Samalaju Resort Hotel is shaping up quickly. The hotel offers stunning views of both the South...
Pic. BA British Airways will resume daily London – Kuala Lumpur direct flight beginning May 27, 2015 according to Malaysia Airport Berhad in a statement, yesterday. The airline first flying to Kuala...
Thailand is heaven – whatever that mean. But be warned. Things are changing and are changing fast in Thailand after the military coup. Richard Bennett, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Director,...
Tanjung batu beach on August 2007. So much have changed, physically along this particular shoreline nearly a decade later. Nowadays, hectare of new land have been created on this spot by reclaiming the...
